“Yesterday was a dark day for Philadelphia,” Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said, calling Saturday's shooting an atrocity. Police were still piecing together on Sunday what had happened on South Street, when two men began shooting at each other.
With 14 people hit by gunfire, the South Street shooting left more people wounded or killed than any other episode of gun violence in Philadelphia since at least 2015, when 11 people were shot during a barbecue in the city’s Mantua neighborhood. It was the first shooting on South Street in which multiple people were killed since 2015, when the police began regularly publishing gun-violence statistics.Officials said the investigation into the shooting was in its early stages.
Those who died were mourned Sunday. Minners was a second-grade boys’ resident adviser at Girard College who was “a mentor and role model” to his students, the American Federation of Teachers said in a statement on his death. Eric Rosso had watched the heavy metal concert and was walking down South Street, past groups of people mingling, on his way home when gunshots erupted. He wasn’t sure whether it was fireworks.“It was like watching a scene from afar as it was happening in slow motion,” said Rosso, 34. “I was realizing, this is a mass shooting event, that’s what this sounds like.”decried the violence.
District Attorney Larry Krasner, who was attending the city’s Pride march Sunday, called on legislators to “boycott” lobbyists from the National Rifle Association and decline donations from the gun lobby, saying the mass shooting is “about as bad as it gets.” But before they could finish, according to Chief Inspector Frank Vanore, the gunfire erupted on South Street.
The man dropped his gun and an extended magazine and ran away, police said. At least two other guns were fired amid the mayhem, Vanore said, but police have not yet identified the suspected shooters.
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